Description

Families is designed to operate in conjunction with Legacy Family Tree, the leading Windows-based genealogy software from Millennia Corp. Your Legacy family files can be easily transferred to your Android device, enabling them to be viewed and edited wherever you are. Families supports the following functionality:

- Multiple family files - New family files can be created from scratch - Family View, Pedigree View, Descendant View and Timeline- Index, searchable by Given Name, Surname or RIN - Relationships- Events - To Do Lists - Master and Detail Sources - Locations and Addresses, with geolocation via Google Maps - Alternate Names - Pictures, including the ability to add pictures from camera or photo album - Documents, audio and video files- Bookmarks- Portrait and Landscape mode on all views- Supports Legacy 6, 7 and 8

Families uses a highly efficient database implementation, allowing very large family files to be supported. Users have successfully displayed and edited files containing over 300,000 individuals.

Families requires a companion program running on the PC to transfer family files to and from the Android device. This program, Families Sync, can be downloaded free of charge from www.telgen.co.uk/families.

A sample family file is included.

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4.1

138 total

5 73

4 35

3 14

2 5

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Marek Přichystal

Very usefull application for me. Synchronization between my android device and PC is good - no problem. And my family tree is available for me - anytime and anywhere. Great job. I can recommend for Legacy Family tree users. After last update Master list address works well!

Paul Bing

Greast program for showing off, or just checking on my data from my Legacy family tree. The display is very logical and easy to see and use.

A Google User

Worked well on my HTC desire, Samsung S3, S5 and now S7. Wonderful.

Spence Burton

Great program. Integrates well with Legacy 8

Brian Kelly

Will not convert Legacy 8.0 files Although it was working fine before, when I attempted to install the latest update on 16 Oct 2016 it will not install. As a result I can no longer use this. This is now the next day and today the App installed without problems. I do get an error when trying to convert a Legacy 8.0 file and had to use the 7.5 version of my data. I thought it is supposed to work with Legacy 8.0

James Hall

Families This is the best app for Legacy 8.0 for the Android. It does everything I could ever ask of the software.

User reviews

Marek Přichystal March 8, 2017

Very usefull application for me. Synchronization between my android device and PC is good - no problem. And my family tree is available for me - anytime and anywhere. Great job. I can recommend for Legacy Family tree users. After last update Master list address works well!

Will not convert Legacy 8.0 files Although it was working fine before, when I attempted to install the latest update on 16 Oct 2016 it will not install. As a result I can no longer use this. This is now the next day and today the App installed without problems. I do get an error when trying to convert a Legacy 8.0 file and had to use the 7.5 version of my data. I thought it is supposed to work with Legacy 8.0

This never seems to work for me. I've tried transferring files from Vista and Windows 10 to an LG L-90 and my Galaxy Note 4 and it never works. Most of the time the transfer freezes or the app just doesn't recognize the files. I tried getting support once, but was only told it should work. Well, I could have told myself that. I spent money on something broken and never got a refund.

Can you make this "cloudable"? I assume the wifi transfer program also converts the fbd file into sqlite3 format. It would be more useful to use the native database format so the fbd can be stored in the cloud and kept synced.

Bought this as a recommendation, tried to load a ged file it does not recognise it nor is there anyway to load it thought my file was corrupt but loaded a free app and it opened it staight away I want a refund

Fonts Fonts for the main screen are good now. Can the date of birth have a similar font? The fonts have been reduced again. There is enough space for a larger font. What about the date of birth font? Can you please increase the dob font? Why was the date of birth font not increased to match the other fonts? Yet another update without increasing the date of birth font. Another update and yet the date of birth font wasn't increased.

Shows potential, but very ugly It works..., kinda. OK for displaying info. Not OK for entering info. The main screen, the pedigree chart, looks like a bad web page from the 1990s. I do find it handy, but it should be a lot better than it is.

On the run A great app. A little learning was needed and I'm still learning.But it's great to sit with elderly relatives over a coffee and pick their memory and record it right onto my phone. No bulky laptops or napkins . The fonts don't bother me I just want the great mobility I now have .Thanks

Great app Works better on iPhone text size is too small on Android even on a large screen. All that real estate with tiny tiny letters. Interface is confusing and I often get bumped out the database as a result & have to log back in.

Companion to Legacy This app is an excellent Android companion to PCs Legacy. Using Families Sync, I had no difficulties in transferring my Legacy files and photos to my BAUHN Android tablet via a USB connection. The end result was great all-be-it a simplified version of Legacy. A great app that makes my family history research very mobile.

Pretty good, but a bit cumbersome to use Useful for checking the odd ancestor, but I've tried using it for research away from home and it's not easy to see all the info I need quickly. It would help if the baptism date was shown on the main page for a person, especially where there is no birth date. Perhaps a different design for tablets, where there is more room for info than on phones.

Font is too small I've downloaded version 2.0.0, but the font is so small on my phone that I have trouble reading the data. Font was bigger in previous versions, but I can find no way to resize it. Other than that, the program is great!

Update - fonts now fixed. Fonts too small in Family view on Galaxy S4 Fantastic app but the fonts are almost too small to read on the S4's 1920 x 1080 screen. Was not a problem on my previous S3. Only an issue on the Family screen but as this is the main navigation screen this is a problem. Running latest versions of both Android app (1.8.2) and PC software (1.5.2.0). Rating is down due to these usability issues. When fixed back to five stars for a great app.

A Wonderful Program When you enter a location for death, it changes the location for birth too. Will only accept one location for both birth and death. If you blank out the location for death, it erases the place of birth as well. Must put everything into "Notes".

Update: Deleted the text files in the "Run" directory under the Families directory on the SD card. Now I can bring up and open the files. I would give 4 stars except that the Relationships setting feature still doesn't work as described! Stopped running on Dell Streak5 after last update All of a sudden, after running fine since June. Then updated in last month and now just a black scr